The following, recently exhumed, had its truncated remains displayed in '09 (print-only, the only mercy). Hopefully, the reduced result might still have led some to check out Hotel War. But they deserve the restored corpus, and so do you (though you may not agree).
"I got my 45/I got my mind right/I got it all inside/They took it all away!" Columbus OH trio Hotel War's new single, "45," tracks metal moments of real life, erupting into yesterday's news. The vengence-seekers of "45" are shells of their pre-victimized selves, re-running final solutions through every black-and-white, security-cam verse. But the chorus eternally rolls into a well-timed and textured, smokin' hole, which preserves and holds the "45" guys, though hollow-pointed be their naked "I"s! don allred